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The Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace & Conflict Resolution (NMCPCR) organised a two-day national conference on “Central India: Towards Conflict Resolution” at the Mir Taqi Mir Building on Wednesday, Sept. 26, and at the Edward Said Hall on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. Guest speakers on Day 1 included K Srinivas Reddy of  The Hindu; Dr PV Ramana, Institute for Defense ...

(Following is a Jamia Press release dated Sept 28, 2012)  Jamia Millia Islamia sets yet another milestone in its academic programme. It introduces Credit Transfer System at the Post Graduate level across faculties/departments/centres. Credit Transfer System entails that the students can opt for courses at the postgraduate level cutting across disciplines and faculties, which will bring greater diversity and flexibility ...

(Following is a Jamia press release dated Sept 27, 2012)  The Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia celebrated International Day of the Girl Child on September 24, 2012 by organizing various activities throughout the day. On this occasion, a Dental Check-up and Treatment Camp for school girls was conducted and a Girl Child Awareness Booth to educate the patients about ...

In this week’s cover story titled “Campus Jottings” dated Sept. 17, 2012, for Edex, the education supplement of The New Indian Express,  Jamia Journal is one among the six notable college newspapers it profiles. The five other college newspapers listed in the article are: DU Beat, Delhi University; The Fourth Estate, IIT Madras; The Scholar’s Avenue, IIT, Kharagpur; Monday Morning, NIT, Rourkela; and VJ News, ...

On a day before the fourth anniversary of the 2008 Batla House “encounter,” Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) conducted a program at the FTK-CIT hall at Jamia to formally release a dossier detailing persecution of Muslims by the Delhi Police’s Special Cell in a report titled, “Framed, Damned, Acquitted: Dossiers of a ‘very’ special cell” on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Speakers ...

After honoring Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, with an honorary doctorate in the year 2010, Jamia Millia Islamia once again welcomed him back on its premises to deliver a talk on “The Importance of Non-Violence and Ethical Values” at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. The program began with the recitation from the Holy ...

The Centre for European and Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia and Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw organized a symposium on the topic “Understanding Poland’s Role in Contemporary Europe” at the Academy of International Studies, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. The two speakers for the symposium were, Boguslaw Waldemar Zaleski, ...

As the elections campaign season for the upcoming presidential elections between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney picks up in the United States, the Department of Political Science, in collaboration with the American Center, New Delhi, conducted a symposium titled “Panorama of 2012 US Election: Making Sense of it” to discuss the American political process, and to look at the race ...

Last month we were witness to a large number of people from the North-East crowding the railway stations at Bangalore and Chennai in a hurry to leave for their hometowns. Conflict in Assam had not only disrupted life in Assam, but had affected lives of people from the North-East residing in the rest of India. To understand the issue and ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Sept 5, 2012] Jamia Millia Islamia has kicked off its placements activities for this year with some of the world’s largest companies like Microsoft, Google, Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra and Mahindra and Works Application visiting Jamia to recruit students. This is the first time that a Japanese Company, namely Works Application, visited Jamia to ...